Text: | I Know Not What the Future Has |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier |
Tune: | WILTSHIRE |
Composer: | George Smart |
1 I know not what the future has
Of marvel or surprise,
Assured alone that life and death
God’s mercy underlies.
2 And if my heart and flesh are weak
To bear an untried pain,
The bruised reed he will not break,
But strengthen and sustain.
3 No offering of my own I have,
Nor works my faith to prove;
I can but give the gifts he gave,
And plead his love for love.
4 And so beside the silent sea
I wait the muffled oar;
No harm from him can come to me
On ocean or on shore.
5 I know not where his islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond his love and care.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | I know not what the future has |
Title: | I Know Not What the Future Has |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier (1867) |
Meter: | 8.6.8.6. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | Faith; God's Care; Hope(3 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WILTSHIRE |
Composer: | George Smart (c. 1795) |
Meter: | 8.6.8.6. |
Key: | A♭ Major |